I have a dataframe as below and it records the quarter and date during which same incident occurs to which IDs.
I would like to mark an ID and date if the incident happen at two consecutive quarters. And this is how I did it.
val arrArray = dtf.collect.map(x => (x(0).toString, x(1).toString, x(2).toString.toInt))
if (arrArray.length > 0) {
var bufBAQDate = ArrayBuffer[Any]()
for (a <- 1 to arrArray.length - 1) {
val (strBAQ1, strDate1, douTime1) = arrArray(a - 1)
val (strBAQ2, strDate2, douTime2) = arrArray(a)
if (douTime2 - douTime1 == 15 && strBAQ1 == strBAQ2 && strDate1 == strDate2) {
bufBAQDate = (strBAQ2, strDate2) +: bufBAQDate
//println(strBAQ2+" "+strDate2+" "+douTime2)
}
}
val vecBAQDate = bufBAQDate.distinct.toVector.reverse
Is there a better way of doing it? As the same insident can happen many times to one ID during a single day, it is better to jump to the next ID and/or date once an ID and a date is marked. I dont want to create nested loops to filter dataframe.
